Ed Bishop
Known for Acting · 114 credits
- Born
- 1932-06-11
- Died
- 2005-06-08
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn - New York - USA
- Also known as
- Edward Bishop · George Victor Bishop
Biography
George Victor Bishop (11 June 1932 – 8 June 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop or sometimes Edward Bishop, was an American actor. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler.
Bishop made his film acting debut as an ambulance driver in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 movie Lolita. He played an American astronaut going to the Moon in the film The Mouse on the Moon (1963) and also appeared in The Bedford Incident (1965) and Battle Beneath the Earth (1967). He had small speaking roles in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971), but was not included in the film credits for either. He appeared in a second Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), in which he played the Captain of the Aries 1B Moon shuttle. The role initially featured dialogue but this was later cut from his scenes.
Bishop appeared in various film and television projects created by producer Gerry Anderson. He provided narration, in addition to the voice of Captain Blue, for Anderson's Supermarionation puppet series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967), and appeared in Anderson's science-fiction film Doppelgänger (1969). Perhaps his most prominent screen role was that of Commander Ed Straker in Anderson's science-fiction series UFO (1970–71). Bishop's dark hair was initially dyed blond for the role, though he eventually wore a blond wig instead.
In later years, he appeared in films such as Twilight's Last Gleaming, Saturn 3, Silver Dream Racer, and The Lords of Discipline. He provided vocal work for the 1974 animated TV series of Star Trek, and appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Harrity in the final episode of the British World War II prisoner-of-war drama Colditz. In the 1980s, he made several appearances on The Kenny Everett Television Show, Whoops Apocalypse (he also appeared in the subsequent film), and had a role in the children's television series Chocky's Children.
He continued to act on film, TV and radio, usually in British and European productions, and was a frequent guest at science fiction conventions. He and fellow Anderson actor Shane Rimmer (a Canadian actor who often worked in the UK) joked about how frequently their professional paths crossed and termed themselves "Rent-a-yank". They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice and as United States Navy sailors in The Bedford Incident, as well as the 1983 film of the Harold Robbins novel The Lonely Lady. In 1989, Bishop was reunited with Rimmer and another Anderson actor, Matt Zimmerman, in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet. He and Rimmer also toured together in theatre shows, including Death of a Salesman in the 1990s, and they both appeared in the BBC drama-documentary Hiroshima (2005), one of Bishop's last TV projects.
Known For
TV Shows (43)
Highlander: The Series
1992
as Edward Banner
American Playhouse
1982
as General Tom Farrell
The Saint
1962
as George Felson / Tony Allard / Cy Imberline
The Professionals
1977
as Dr. Ernest Harbinger / Braddock
Theatre 625
1964
as Padfield
Waking the Dead
2001
as Tyler
UFO
1970
as Ed Straker
Thriller
1973
as Carson / Gang Boss (voice)
Performance
1991
as Stanton Case
The Protectors
1972
as Colonel John Hunter
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as David Beeston
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as The Millionaire
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
1967
as Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)
2Point4 Children
1991
as Chet
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Star Trek
1973
as Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)
Worlds Beyond
1986
as Mr Hitchcock
The Adventurer
1972
as Wayne
Colditz
1972
as Lt. Col. Harrity
Sherlock Holmes
1964
Wilde Alliance
1978
as Wingman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Pinkerton
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982
as Various
Warship
1973
1990
1977
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
1983
as District Attorney
Two's Company
1975
as Jack
Out of the Unknown
1965
as Commandant Tom Decker
Strange Report
1969
as Moran
Just Good Friends
1983
as Vernon
Quiller
1975
as Frank Ilroy
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
as Edward Barnard
The Demon Headmaster
1996
as TV Supremo
Space Cadets
1997
as Self
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Karl
Breakaway
1980
as Scott Douglas
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
as Strasser
Kelly Monteith
1979
Whoops Apocalypse
1982
as Jay Garrick
The Mad Death
1983
as Tom Siegler
Life at Stake
1978
as Jim Lovell
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
as Joe Bradley
Chocky's Children
1985
as Dr. Deacon
Movies (71)
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
You Only Live Twice
1967
as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
Diamonds Are Forever
1971
as Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
Lolita
1962
as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
White Christmas
1995
Madame Claude
1977
as Smith
Threads
1985
as US President (voice) (uncredited)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Maj. Fox
Saturn 3
1980
as Harding (uncredited)
Turnaround
1987
as Gerald
The Lonely Lady
1983
as Dr. Baker
Nutcracker
1982
as Sam Dozier
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Henry Harris
The Bedford Incident
1965
as Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
Silver Dream Racer
1980
as Al Peterson
Beach Head
1969
as Commandant Tom Decker
The Mouse on the Moon
1963
as American Astronaut (as Edward Bishop)
Doppelgänger
1969
as David Poulson
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
1975
as TV Announcer
Target: Captain Black!
as Captain Blue (voice)
The Desperados
1969
as Army Captain (voice)
Pets
1973
as Victor Stackman
Hiroshima
2005
as Stimson
Judgment in Berlin
1988
as Dyson Wilde
The War Lover
1962
as Vogt
UFO: Take Them Alive
1972
as Commander Ed Straker
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
1981
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Serpent of Death
1990
as Grant
The Fifth Missile
1986
as Adm. Stewart Cullinane
The Baron: Mystery Island
1972
as Operations Officer
Brass Target
1978
as Col. Stewart
Man in the Middle
1964
Paul Starr
1964
as Paul Starr (voice)
The Master of Ballantrae
1984
as Pinkerton
UFO: Destroy Luna Base!
1971
as Commander Ed Straker
UFO: Annihilate SHADO... Kill Straker...
1972
as Commander Ed Straker
2001: The Making of a Myth
2001
as Self
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
as Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
Big City
1963
as Narrator (as Edward Bishop)
The Candy Show
1989
as Geoffrey
Invasion: UFO
1980
as Cmdr. Ed Straker
Funny Man
1994
as Card Player
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
as Carstairs
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985
Born to Ride
1991
as Dr. Tate
Restless Natives
1985
as Reporter
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
1999
as Sentry
Three Wishes for Jamie
1987
as Proddy
Death in Deep Water
1975
as Gang Boss (voice)
Children of the Gods
1979
as Brother Bethlehem
Wynne and Penkovsky
1985
as Alexander
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967
as Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
This Is Supermarionation
2014
as Captain Blue (voice)
Chocky's Children
1985
as Dr. Deacon
Testimony
1988
as American Commentator
Nurse Will Make It Better
1975
as Carson
Broken Glass
1996
as Stanton Case
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
1981
as Stainless Steel (voice)
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
1981
as Captain Blue (voice)
UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!
1971
as Commander Ed Straker
Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
1980
as Captain Blue (voice)
500!
2001
as Padre Jones
Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons
1999
as Captain Blue (voice)
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing!
1974
London Is Drowning
1981
as American reporter
Calliope
1994
as Lewis Belvedere
Nudism: The Inside Story
1992
as Narrator (voice)
Automania 2000
1964
as Narrator
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
1978
as Prof. Goonmeyer
Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Butch Minds the Baby
1979
as Damon Runyon (voice)
About Ed Bishop
George Victor Bishop (11 June 1932 – 8 June 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop or sometimes Edward Bishop, was an American actor. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler. Bishop made his film acting debut as an ambulance driver in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 movie Lolita. He played an American astronaut going to the Moon in the film The Mouse on the Moon (1963) and also a… With 114 credits spanning from 1951 to 2022, Ed Bishop has appeared in 71 films and 43 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ed Bishop Movies
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
- You Only Live Twice (1967) — as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971) — as Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
- Lolita (1962) — as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
- White Christmas (1995)
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